Siddharth Gupta

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Senior Platform Engineer at Walmart · Platform engineering · Go, Bazel

Walmart
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
8+ years experience
USC
English
Collaborating
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Overview

Currently at Walmart, where I work on platform engineering. Moved 93% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with Backstage and Kubernetes. I write short fiction no one reads.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Collaborators for my side project
  • Second opinions on Kubernetes decisions
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
Skills
BazelKubernetesCI/CDBackstageobservabilityservice meshGo
CollaboratingLooking to collaborate
closes in 3 months

Looking for collaborators on an open-source observability toolkit

Project
An open-source observability toolkit
Skills needed
Kubernetes, Design
Time commitment
Weekends
Outcome
Published guide

No money involved, just a good project. Async-first.

Chicago, IL · remote OKservice meshci/cdbackstage
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Experience

  1. Senior Platform Engineer
    Feb 2026 - Present
    Walmart · 8 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 80 million requests a day.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Apr 2024 - Feb 2026
    KPMG · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 383ms to 119ms.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Feb 2022 - Apr 2024
    PwC · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 19 million requests a day.
  4. Platform Engineer
    May 2018 - Feb 2022
    LinkedIn · 3 yr 9 mo · Contract · Chicago, IL
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 818ms to 79ms.

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Information Technology
    2013 - 2017

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